Term ends Oct 21, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 29, 2034
Held by Microjet Technology Co., Ltd.
Filed Dec 17, 2015 as application 14/973,298 · Granted Oct 23, 2018
Base term plus 417 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014
Term ends
Oct 21, 2034
Oct 21, 2034
Granted
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
417
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,421,714.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 417 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 29, 2014, when application 14/473,588, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 17, 2015) | Aug 29, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +417 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 20, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,421,714) | capped to Oct 21, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 21, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,375,880 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,105,901 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2015 Reel 37326, frame 237 | Mou, Hao-jan; Shi, Kwo-yuan; Han, Yung-lung; Huang, Chi-feng | Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 21, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 417 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,421,714.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.